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Fedora 9 : ghostscript-8.63-2.fc9 (2009-2883)
high Nessus Plugin ID 35983
Synopsis
The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.Description
Security update for integer overflows (CVE-2009-0583) and upper bounds checks (CVE-2009-0584) in the ICC profile handling.Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.
Solution
Update the affected ghostscript package.See Also
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=487742
Plugin Details
Severity: High
ID: 35983
File Name: fedora_2009-2883.nasl
Version: 1.17
Type: local
Agent: unix
Family: Fedora Local Security Checks
Published: 3/22/2009
Updated: 1/11/2021
Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: Medium
Score: 5.9
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: High
Base Score: 9.3
Temporal Score: 8.1
Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Vulnerability Information
CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:ghostscript, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:9
Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list
Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available
Patch Publication Date: 3/21/2009
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2009-0583, CVE-2009-0584
BID: 34184